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The Wild Girl: English Edition
Paperback
Series: 19th Century Croatian Fiction
Classic FictionGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 4 2025
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.42 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A young woman's longing for freedom.
A seducer without conscience.
A love that ends in silence.
Written in 1874, The Wild Girl by Rikard Jorgovanic is a psychologically intense novel of desire, illusion, and moral collapse, set against the cultural landscapes of Croatia, Graz, and Prague within the Habsburg world.
Renata, a gifted and restless young woman raised between privilege and abandonment, longs for independence and emotional truth in a society that offers her neither. When she falls under the spell of Rain-a charming artist whose refinement masks cold calculation-her yearning turns into obsession, and obsession into ruin. Around her, men hesitate, exploit, or look away; institutions moralize too late; and compassion arrives only when it no longer saves.
Told through lyrical narration, intimate diary entries, and sharp social observation, Jorgovanic's prose moves between romantic intensity and sober irony. The work confronts themes that remain unsettlingly modern: emotional manipulation, female vulnerability within rigid social structures, the abuse of trust, and the quiet cruelty of respectability.
This English edition presents Jorgovanic's text in clear, idiomatic translation, accompanied by restrained historical notes that illuminate cultural references without interrupting the narrative flow. The result is a faithful and readable introduction to a powerful and unjustly overlooked voice of nineteenth-century Central European literature.
A haunting work of psychological realism, The Wild Girl will appeal to readers of classic European fiction, tragic love stories, and rediscovered literary voices of the nineteenth century.
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